Tiberium Dusk 1.24 - Release file

I agree with what you're saying, but I usually work in an iterative work-cycle. I create something often in a basic form, and work on it in iterations. (Or as you see it, versions of the mod)

Take for instance the first iteration of the Cyborg Commando, it was just the groundwork based on the Enlightened with a dumb looking rocket projectile placeholder and a different voice. :)

Whilst the Banshee may be underwhelming in some areas at the moment, I'll likely add changes (maybe even ones you've referenced) as I go along.

Nalpalm Plasma and being able to fire 1 shot at a time / burst fire / full auto sounds interesting though. ;)

I might change it so that you have firing modes that you can select at the airfield / tower to be just like that. :D

I wouldn't get too disappointed if the first version of a unit isn't to expectation, sometimes I deliberately keep things simple just so I can get feedback for improving it for the future.

I agree, and I'm going to revert the Blaster back to its previous health beforehand so it can fire shots off before dying.

I originally set the health slightly lower because I thought it'd be overpowered, but in hindsight after some testing with friends I still found it went unused, despite the initial peak in interest.

I do like me weapon selectors...

I wonder, how about a "quick fire" option where it simply fires a laser beam straight off, for those intense fights, kinda like the avatar laser...

And then having the option to swap to a "charge up" laser that does very high damage when required? It'd fit the name "blaster" then pretty well. :P

Its not quite 1 hit, (around 4 laser zaps from the Nod commando) but I did want a sniper counter.

I'm thinking of making him slightly more resilient to sniper though so he can just about win vs a regular Commando (when using the flamethrower though).

I think the Commando should be able to win when Cyborg is using his plasma cannon, but the Cyborg Commando should win when he's using the flamethrower.

Thank you. ^^

The veterancy / elite system does need some work I'd admit. :) Some units can't get veterancy at all at the moment due to the fact that they simply can't get it. :/ It can be fixed though, just takes time. ^^

Sometimes the drones do get confused repairing cyborgs, I don't think there's much I can do, its just because the Cyborgs are small. :D

I'm planning on making all infantry tech structures (secret shrine, statis chamber) have "hospital" functionality in the next update; so that problem will be fixed. :)

Its an unavoidable issue due to the way that the mod relegates radar to the "radar" structures. (Nerve Centre, ops centre etc)

Basically EA scripted Radar in the first few missions to work solely with the conyard (and not the radar structures) which causes an issue with the radar when its built.

Luckily it doesn't happen later in the campaign though.

The only other campaign mission I remember that has a problem is "all that glitters" which you may have to skip.
The mod is mainly built around Skirmish and multi so there are some minor teething problems you have to ignore with campaign. ;)

Known bug. ;)

I will attempt to fix it (hopefully) in 1.25.

Its due to the new "hover" locomotors that allow smooth terrain traverse.

For some reason it works oddly with the Seeker, yet its fine when it comes to hitting other hover vehicles.

Its not deliberate, its a known bug that needs to be fixed. ;)

Its down to the new all-terrain locomotors that the hover vehicles use, which works fine for some vehicles but not others.

Yeah, description / upgrade picture needs to be removed entirely ultimately.

I actually removed Quad Turrets from the game completely (only used for the Marked of Kane Single Turret effect) due to the multiplayer crashes it causes. ;)

Quad Turrets is a strange beast. If you start the game with the upgrade, you NEVER have a problem with desyncs in multiplayer games, but if you buy it midgame and you have a turret in the field? = game desyncs and you're kicked from the lobby.

This is why it works great for the singular marked of kane turrets, and is essentially me just using the asset provided to an effect that doesn't crash multiplayer. :3

I know it happens on Black's Bigger Battle, due to the fact that the tiberium nearby prevents the AI from unpacking and messes up its scripting. This is just an inherent issue with the game, not much I can do there, plus I've not done anything to cause the AI to have an issue. I've changed what its spawns with, that's literally it. ;P

The blood was inspired by Quake 3, you'll either love it or hate it. The pixelization is caused by the Tiberium Wars Dynamic Decal system and there's no way of changing the forced LOD, it actually happens on all decals in the game to a certain extent, its why EA never uses them (and why there's little to no scorching / environmental damage).

Visceroids are made to be annoying pests like Tiberian Sun visceroids, and yes, that's meant to be a viable tactic. It'll be even more hell assuming I can get Tiberian Fiends to work. ;)

Point is, I'm not expecting everyone to enjoy it. I'm not making a mod that tries to keep in the same context as Kane's Wrath, if anything I aspire to throw KW and its gameplay out the window.

It does say it in the mod summary too. ^^ (Tiberian Sun esque experience (including all its flaws and unbalances))

That's not to say I wont try to bugfix things where possible and balance things for fun gameplay that isn't mindless. ;)

Oh, that's seldom looked at, nice job pointing that out.

Its a testbed for a "medic" engineer, if you damage infantry you can put him near them and they'll heal. It doesn't replenish lost infantry though, only ones that are alive.

I forgot about that lol. :D

Yeah, its something I just implemented for a test medic unit. Eventually I'll probably make it into something proper, but for now its just one of those leftover little things. :)

I do want a genuine GDI medic infantry at some point though, it'd be cool.

You've probably got One Vision or some other mod and this mod mixed up as that's what usually causes the issues with unit strings.

Try to keep Tiberium Dusk in its own folder when you install as this is the most common cause of error.

The strings themselves are in the misc.big file, but the issue is when you have 2 skudef files in the same place as the game doesn't know which one to read (which can cause crossover with other mods).

Hi mate, I've yet to really start work on Scrin though it is planned at some point.

Reaper 17 does have the Demolisher Hexapod so I wonder what you mean by walker? An upgraded Reaper Tripod? :P

It depends on what you're looking for. ;)

I do want to make some changes with the Mothership, specifically I want the AI to build it and use other special abilities other than just the lightning spike and buzzer swarm, but that takes time.

I've slowed down work quite a bit recently as I don't want to get burnt out like I did before, so I've dropped the monthy schedule; but Scrin is one of those things I do want to change. :D

As far as capital ships / heavy ships go, I would like to make the Planet Assault Carrier at some point be a one-unit at a time purchase, but this is assuming I implement the GDI Kodiak. I have some modifications in mind to make a possible Air Epic Unit out of the PAC. (Not overpowered, but I'd like a return of a "true" ion storm, not just that crappy little cloud thing)

Personally, I would like the Mothership to be like a mobile support epic-unit, by this I mean; you can call in Scrin special powers and Forces at a reduced price as its "special" powers.

For example, I give it a power to call in a Small Meteorite for 500 credits (similar to Overlord's Wrath), another ability that can allow you to spawn an army of ground forces for 2000 credits and also the ability to spawn an ion storm within a certain range (for free).

The Mothership imo is a wasted opportunity to give a unique super-unit that isn't just this dumb 1 shot base killer that gets killed in 5 seconds.

I actually hate the catalyst cannon effect (where it hits multiple buildings)... I'd honestly rather just have it do a single big explosion.

In a previous unreleased mod for Tiberium Wars (joke mod, was just for fun, rather than serious like this one is), I actually made a mothership rather similar to that, except it spawned all the units for free and was kinda dumb; I feel giving it dedicated powers with a recharge time is a better way to implement it.

Will aim to buddy. ;)

Got a lot of stuff work in progress that needs finishing atm, so I'm mainly adding stuff in and tying up loose ends. :P

The mod's almost 70mb larger than it is from this release, tbh I can't even remember what I've added to make it that big; a lot of my work is experimentation that I end up polishing up to be "final". It can be quite confusing at times. xD

Glad you like it. ;)

1.25 will be releasing soonish (hopefully before the end of this month), with a tonne of changes. I've been playing it with friends recently to try and squash any bugs. :P